MY DREAM OF THE RAPTURE

Sometime in 1992, I had the most marvelous yet frightening dream. And until I woke up, I didn't know it was a dream.

In my sleep that night, I saw myself in the ‘realms of eternity’. I was conscious of self in eternity but I was at the same time able to view events as if I was an onlooker.

Why I call it 'eternity' is that time stopped ticking in that realm for me. I’m assuming with God’s enablement: You can view the history of the whole world in eternity and yet never be conscious of time. And that was what happened to me. My life now appeared to me and I began to review and preview it as I wished. Where I was in the realms of eternity, there was no hurry for anything.

However, I realized that life for me in eternity started the day I gave my life to Jesus Christ ... to God that was what counts. So the vision of my life started from that day onward.

I saw the day God visited me and I didn't know He was visiting me at that time. It was a dark night in 1989, and I wept and asked God: “If truly Hell exists and Heaven exists, let me not be thrown to such a wicked place like Hell. I can’t control the rate I am sinning, and if there is any way I can make it to Heaven … since You are my creator … please make the way for me.”

And a still small voice spoke to me thrice: "Your prayers have been heard", after which I had perfect peace and the turbulence of guilt left my soul.
  

Any other thing that happened afterward was just mere formality, because God was there with me that night and I saw that it was the event that triggered my salvation. I saw when I gave my life to Christ; when I got filled with the Holy Ghost in 1991, and many other things which I won’t go into details here.

I noticed in the vision that unfolded before me in my dream that my life seemed to be divided into three stages:

1: I was a very serious and a devoted Christian during the first stage -- roughly a timeframe of up to ten years or even more.

2: After that I became spiritually lukewarm and cold during the second stage; my life became entangled with worldly, selfish and sinful things.

3: Then during the third stage, I suddenly made a resolve to serve God faithfully and even though it wasn't easy for me, due to the magnitude of negative things happening in the world then, I continued being faithful.

Then the very unexpected happened suddenly! One day, the rapture occurred. The people left behind in the rapture heard noises; some heard the earth quaking; some didn't hear anything; but the magnitude of the event was too awesome to me who saw it in eternity.

The second and first heavens were filled with the brightness of God; all the host of heaven, without any warning of any sort, suddenly galloped down to the earth; there was pandemonium amongst the demons even in the kingdom of Satan. Hell shook; all the devils on earth fell down like dead men, until the event was over as quickly as it had started.

Firstly, graves of dead saints in Christ were opened and they flew up into the sky like rockets; Jesus stood there in the sky, hovering over the earth with outstretched arms. And then the saying was fulfilled which says: "Wherever the carcass is, there the eagles shall be gathered together". (See: Matthew 24:28  KJV).

Then we who were alive and in Christ were caught up together with those who rose from the grave. This was done with no human or angelic intervention, but by the power of God … which was so awesome that day!

In the dream, in a twinkle of an eye, I saw myself changed and put on a glorified body, while I flew up and was joined together with the rest of the saints around Jesus Christ in the sky, just above the earth. Jesus looked around Himself as if He was able to take stock of all the millions upon millions of people that stood around Him in white clothing. Being satisfied that all the saints that God the Father gave Him were complete … He began to smile.

At that stage, as we stood in the sky around Jesus, not being in a hurry to move away from there, I couldn't help but admire those around me, and to marvel at what was happening. The thought that was going on within me was: "So I made the rapture? So this is the rapture spoken about? How easy I could have missed it like others who were left behind! Did I really do anything to merit this? My God - I am changed forever! Had I known that this would be like this, I would've served Jesus with all my being every second of my life on earth."

Then the unthinkable happened. I saw many people I would have assumed to be sinners while on earth – they made the rapture. In fact they even appeared to outnumber those who I knew as “Christians” while on earth; because so many of the "so-called Christians" I had known weren’t serving God with their hearts at all, but just mere half-hearted lip service! Just mere show and pretense – man made religious activities of sorts. They had various stages of knowledge of God, but had no real, personal one-on-one intimate relationship with Jesus Christ the Judge -- obeying His clear commands in scripture to obey Him had been lukewarm at best, if at all. So many were spiritually deceived and in their deception, deceiving others … “practicing lawlessness” as Jesus referred to them as in Matthew 7:21-23. These were all left behind to suffer.

This all instantly unfolded before me as I stood there in the sky: Those who made the Rapture (particularly those whom I once thought were sinners) had given their lives to Christ at a certain juncture in life, and even became faithful to God to various degrees; yet in time they chose to live completely without compromise by the absolute standards of God's Word: Righteousness, Holiness and Truth. These were the ones who were taken instead of the "so-called Christians", who were left behind to face the mighty wrath of the devil, an emissary of no little kindness that helps to convey the Father’s sore displeasure to sinners.

"But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly.  For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. 

"Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy [walking in uncompromising righteousness (right relationship with God) - uncompromising obedience to God's Word] to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man."  - Luke 21:35-36 (NKJV)

Then in eternity, I suddenly looked at Hell and my heart stood still. Many of my friends, including my neighbors and even my relatives and those long dead and forgotten … were in Hell!

Generations upon generations of people were in Hell. Even if one had thrown a thermonuclear bomb to wipe out all the people that are currently alive on planet Earth out of existence, it wouldn't have measured up to the magnitude of horrors which I saw the generations of people experiencing in the eternal damnation of Hell’s fire.

It is a shocker of the worst kind for you -- a saved soul -- to know that even one of the souls that you had known on earth is in Hell. Same thing for those in Hell: It brings possibly the best consolatory knowledge to those in Hell to know that one of the souls they knew while on earth made it to Heaven. Nobody in Hell wishes anybody on earth to join them in Hell -- that was how bad a knowledge the vision of my dream revealed to me.

Surprisingly, there in the rapture I was like God and could view and get answers instantly to all my questions and even about those people in Hell! THEREFORE I AM ETERNALLY GRATEFUL TO YOU JESUS FOR REDEEMING MY SOUL -- OUR SOULS!

Then I woke up to find out that it was just a mere dream! And what a dream indeed ... except the Bible says it is actually going to happen!

For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God.  And the dead in Christ will rise first.  Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.  And thus we shall always be with the Lord.  Therefore comfort one another with these words.  - 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 (NKJV)

By Dennis Ejeh Glenn

The coming of the Anti-Christ, the Beast!

As for the coming of the anti-christ, the beast, the Lord revealed to me 2 days ago that let no man’s heart be troubled, because he will not come into the world till God causes him to appear. He will appear in the most dramatic way, under a time schedule that will be apparent that God almighty has begun to intervene in the world’s affair.

The book of revelation sets the precedence on a 7 numbered agendas. According to God’s divine number as exhibited in Genesis, the number 1 stands for the separation of LIGHT from DARKNESS (good from evil). The number 6 stands for the creation of MAN which stands for the ULTIMATE agenda of God for that era, and number 7 stands for a period of rest, after which satan attacked in a gross way… to deceive mankind.

Revelation started with a letter addressed to the 7 churches. I am not talking about that now. But I will only say that these all represent an era of time similar to that depicted by Genesis timeline only that the events are different.

Next revelation talked about the opening of the 7 seals. This is the era all mankind is facing now. The first 4 seals have already been broken and we are seeing the worst outbreak of diseases, wars, famines and natural disasters.  We are passing through the era of the 5^th seal now. What remains next?

The 6th seal is about to be broken, but I am going to interpret it in a way that I have not seen any Christians or denominations willing to interpret. But I must warn you that I am telling you nothing but the truth as God revealed it to me 2 days ago…. that it is the will of God that both the  Christians and non-Christians be ushered soon into a period of great trouble primarily caused by the intervention of God in the affairs of man. The trouble will begin and progress till somewhere near the climax, the rapture would occur, before the great tribulation begins. Yet I will not GIVE a specific time for the rapture to occur, least I be made a liar, but however I can confidently tell you that, in accordance with the scriptures, which I used IN ODER to compare scriptures with scriptures, the rapture will not occur till after the LAST TRUMPET has sounded. 

The last trumpet is the 7^th trumpet that will be sounded  which would usher in the kingdom of God with power; satan and his demons would be cast down to earth and banished from all the corners of (second) heaven… thus signifying the start of the great tribulation. Men can only make it to heaven then only if they offer their lives to be killed by the devil, would demand allegiance only to (himself) the antichrist.

The intervention of God in the affairs of man will start this way… a great earthquake will shook the whole world to its very foundation. While men are screaming and muttering to themselves that God’s anger has begun, the angels of God would use this period  to go around and put a (hidden mark) seal on the forehead of every child of God on planet earth, including the selected Jews. This signals the end of the 6^th seal.

Then as the 7^th seal is opened, after a brief silence in heaven, 7 angels would be given each a trumpet to sound. Mind you, the sounding of each one of the 7 trumpets signifies a certain catastrophe hitting the earth. The mind of God here is that people should become acutely conscious of this supernatural happenings; that people should know that God has intervened acutely in the world’s affairs; that people should repent and be saved (in fact, that is why the rapture cannot occur in this period so that the children of God having the seal of God on their forehead would lead many to salvation or preach to the ‘tribulation saints’ who would repent later).

But contrary to all expectations, I think that the major problem really began on planet earth when the 5^th trumpet was sounded. A star fell from heaven and went and open the bottomless pit. Here is where the problem of interpreting the book of Revelation starts for many Christians. In fact, I have never seen or heard of anybody who got it right… everyone who reads this portion believes that the bottomless pit is a hidden place of mystery.

Rather, it is not a hidden place of mystery, but a place that will soon be knocked open in the future by a star (to be precise… a black-hole star). Many scientists and Christians have already begun to know and to speculate that the earth has a large hollow inside. That is, the earth is like a large football with empty space inside (even though our geography textbook has never taught us that). Some Russian scientists, who drilled a hole to about 14km into the earth at the Kola peninsula in Russia, were surprised to stumble into the gate of hell. They discovered that the driller busted into an empty cavity that was more than 2000 degree centigrade (or the surface temperature of the sun). And when they send a sensitive sensor inside, they heard the scream of millions of people in hell. The project was closed down immediately afterward and sealed.

When the bottomless pit is opened... locust-like creatures would come out of it and torment mankind for 4 months (but only those who do not have the seal of God on their forehead). And no one will be able to die this period even if you seek for death. I believe that after this period, those who refused to accept God are now ready for the antichrist.

The antichrist, who was chained in the bottomless pit, would use this period to come out of the pit and interact with the world. For the first 3-and-a-half year, he would be trying to court the world and make them love and believe in him. But after the 7^th trumpet has sounded and satan is cast out of heaven down to the earth, his mission would become extremely critical to satan… so that for 42 months (or the reaining 3-and-a-half year) mankind would experience a great tribulation not parallel to anything ever witnessed. Those who did not pay heed to the gospel would do that with their blood they were to repent during this period because I am sure the rapture would occur after the 7^th trumpet (the last trumpet) is sounded. Trumpets were used in the Bible days to signify warnings… and when he last one has sounded, you cannot have any more warnings but the face the wrath of satan.

My conclusion is that, you do not have to wait for this period to come, because if you die in your sins now, you’d go to hellfire. Judgment starts from the day you die; you cannot repent again. What a foolish thing  to think that there is still time on your side! My mother who saw heaven and hell before she died, said “when I was taken to heaven, I saw some angels ready to blow trumpets”. I never did understand what my mother was saying, till 2 days ago when God gave me the interpretation that He is about to intervene in our football-watching crazy world. Soon,no more Arsenal or Chelsea fans… but you will be forced acutely between God and satan to cast your vote on your destiny.